Phillip Morris, Senior Development Manager for the Centre for Sustainable Energy talks about Energy at Home, a scheme which offers generous grants for heating and insulation to help residents of Bath & North East Somerset to make energy saving improvements to their homes.

1. Energy at HomeTrade Support
Phillip Morris
Senior Development Manager
Centre for Sustainable Energy

2. Stakeholder Forum
Energy at Home
• Grants available to help residents in Bath & North East Somerset make
heating and insulation improvements.
• Energy at Home is a partnership between Bath & North East Somerset
Council, Curo, Bath & West Community Energy and other stakeholders.
• The Partnership’s purpose is to champion carbon reduction, affordable
warmth, health and well-being, community engagement and economic
development through home energy retro-fitting.
• CSE manage the Energy at Home Advice Service andTrade Support

3. Stakeholder Forum
Offer to Householders
• Energy advice
• Green DealAdvice Reports (sometimes free)
• Up to £7,000 grant for solid wall insulation or a package of energy saving
improvements that includes solid wall insulation
• Up to £3,000 for a single or package of energy saving improvements e.g.
boiler upgrade, loft insulation, cavity wall insulation, secondary glazing and
many more.

4. Stakeholder Forum
Uptake since launch
• More than 300 local residents have
already contacted the scheme
• Home energy assessments have
been carried out on more than 150
properties - occupants are now
obtaining quotes and making
applications for support and finance
to carry out improvements

5. Stakeholder Forum
Council approach to renewable energy
The council is committed to increase the amount of renewable energy
generated in the district but doesn’t have the team or resources to do big
installations itself.
How to make this happen?
1. Support local business and community sectors
2. Carried out research into what renewable energy potential there is for
the area:
• Wind opportunities are limited
• Hydro opportunities are limited
• We need to make use of the solar potential

6. Stakeholder Forum
Council approach to renewable energy
The research has led to:
• Clear planning guidance
• Leading by example – installing systems on Council buildings
• Co-operationAgreement with Bath &West Community Energy
Community model particularly in-line with how the Council wants to work,
jointly delivering things with partners and the community, rather than
owning and running the whole thing.

7. Stakeholder Forum
Bath andWest Community Energy model
BWCE are aiming to install medium sized arrays.They don't do domestic
scale schemes themselves
Using the Community ownership model:
• Feed-in tariff stays in the area, to shareholders and community groups
and doesn’t go to commercial companies out of the area.
• BWCE shareholder (minimum investment of £500) for the last 3 years
have had a 7% p/a return on their investment - better than banks.
• More than 70% of shareholders being in the local area

8. Stakeholder Forum
Planning
Solar is Permitted Development (for dwelling mounted) so planning
permission is not needed, unless certain conditions apply
To be used together with the
Permitted Development Checklist

9. Stakeholder Forum
Community owned Solar PV in Bath

10. Stakeholder Forum
On a Listed Building
Newton St Loe - there
are examples in Bath
too!

11. Stakeholder Forum
PV on Council buildings

12. Stakeholder Forum
Council wants to lead by example by having solar on their own roofs.
• One of the largest public sector owned arrays in the UK on Keynsham Civic
Centre (x 2 systems totalling 244kW)
• 14 schools (6 through BWCE scheme)
• Lewis House, near railway station (38kW system)
Other examples of big arrays are: University of Bath and Curo Social Housing
Provider offices in Bath but there is still lots of opportunity in B&NES…

13. Stakeholder Forum
In December 2014 Council made a £500k Loan to the
Wilmington Farm ground mounted solar array

14. Stakeholder Forum
Freshford and Limpley Stoke Energy
Community Shares Ltd
• Established as an Industrial and Provident Society (in
the form of a cooperative) to develop renewable
energy resources for the benefit of the community.
• Just over £50,000 was raised from some 20 local
resident investors.
• 72 solar panels was installed in late 2011 on the hill
above the Galleries shop

15. Stakeholder Forum
Energy at HomeTrade Support
• Funding to support training of local trades on energy
saving & renewable energy measures
• To improve national supply chain capacity
• To improve supply chain capacity for the Energy at Home
scheme
• To meet UK targets, 2000 of the 77,500 homes in BaNES
need to be radically refurbished every year

16. Stakeholder Forum
Energy at HomeTrade Support
50%+ reductions in the cost of Green Deal certification,
sustainable construction training at local colleges and
membership toTrading Standards Buy with Confidence
scheme.

17. Stakeholder Forum
Green Deal mentoring and Certification
• Green Deal Certification (1 group of measures e.g. insulation) -
normal price £696, Energy at Home price £348
• Green Deal Certification, QMS system and mentoring - normal
price £1,464, Energy at Home price£702

18. Stakeholder Forum
Green SkillsAcademy – 50%+ discount
• Fundamental Principles of RenewableTechnologies (June
2015)
• Solar PV (June 2015)
• SolarThermal (June 2015)

19. Stakeholder Forum
Buy with Confidence
Buy with Confidence is the recommended list of approved
installers from the Bath & North East SomersetTrading Standards
team.
Size of company Normal
membership cost
Our membership
cost
1-5 employees £75 £37
5-15 employees £150 £75
16+ employees £225 £112

20. Stakeholder Forum
Green Register
Retrofitting traditional buildings: 26 March 2015 1.30pm-
5.30pm
75% discount – normal price £59-£135

21. Stakeholder Forum
Questions & further contact
• website: www.energyathome.org.uk
• email: tradesupport@energyathome.org.uk
• telephone: 0800 038 5688
open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm